Misconception of Wealth

Has anyone ever niticed how sooo many people, white trash in particular, have such a gross misconception of wealth and more specifically what is valuable and why. After growing up in the woods of Vermont and spending the last 5 years in northwestern Maine, I have seen this proven soo many times on sooo many levels. I first encountered this as a child, when like most kids i wa sgetting into collectable trading cards. Now by no means were we like out parents, putting ted williams cards in the spokes of out bikes to make them sound cooler, thats just painful to think about. Most of me and my freinds however held on to them and swapped then back and fourth like small market general managers do today. However I had one freind who didnt do this. He was my only freind who lived in a trailer and his parents would not let him open his baseball card packs. now dont get me wrong I realize that unopened packs or cards do gain some value down the road, but that was not their reasoning, they seemed to think that all the cards lost all of their value the second that foil packaging was opened. Note they also had a massive TV and the best cable package money could buy. This was my first encounter with this misconception of value/wealth. I could never understand why these people who lived in a trailer and wouldnt even let their son enjoy baseball cards somehow had a killer TV and cable package. Fast foward a few years I have another freind living in a similar situation whos parents would spend hundreds of dollars on Beanie Babies every month, ya, Beanie Babies, remember those things? Anyway me being kind of a smart kid one time asked them why they didnt sell them? this was around the peak of the fad when some were worth a coupple hundred bucks a piece on ebay. I was abruptly told that, that would be stupid that since at the rate they had been gaining value their collection would be worth hundreds of thousands in ten years... Nuff said. My final and most recent major encounter was when I worked at an major chain resturant with an Italian theme. One of my co-workers, who will go unnamed, had, not only 98' Cavilier with speakers worth more then the car, and a "top of the line mongouse mountain bike" but "a PS2 game collection worth id think a coupple thousand". That was the kicker, not only did the guy care more about how loud his speakers were, then the actual insurance he had on his car, which there wasnt, but he seemed to think his 300 + PS2 games were worth the same as when he bought them!! Why is it that white trash generally has such a gross misconception of appreciation depreciation and just money in general. Now these arent things you need to take an economisc class to understand this is pretty baisc shit. So why, why, are there soooo many people who don't seem to get it? I though tof this today when I saw hundreds of people loading expensive electronics into beater cars and ancient minivans while driving past best buy today. If you can laugh at this article it means you get it and have a lot to be thankful for.

Odd guy or what?!

So I have been debating about writing a post about a dude in my class for some time. Today it became clear to me that it is my duty to all you folk to do so. I should have known from the time he said if astronauts don't use our math then why should I be doing it that this young man was one of a kind. I do not know a whole lot about this guy. I do know some how he is in some form of our armed services, and can carry a gun when doing so. I also know that he will just talk all class about whatever pops into his head. This led another dude in my class to tell him in front of everyone that he is unstable, and that he should not be allowed to have a gun. He retaliated by calling him hippie child from then on.
Today was the most amusing class day yet. He started out by telling us and the teacher that he just watched the star was family guy with his 8 year old cousin. He told us that his cousin read all the words in the beginning. Our teacher was like well I suppose that is OK as long as he doesn't repeat them. apparently in these words it talks about Angelina Jolie and how is naked in Gilie the movie. So the young man tells the teacher that he is allowed to go rent Gilie to see Angelina naked for 40 minutes as long as the 8 year old isn't around. The teacher just lets out a fake chuckle. This is a woman teacher BTW. Then the dude proceeds to say that Angelina is Hot in a milf sort of way, and that " he wishes that he was her son so he could suck on her breasts". No one responded to that, although I was laughing rather hard inside. Then he went on to say that he bets her son goes to school and hears kids talking about his mom and brags that he got to suck on her titties. At this point in the class I was not getting any math done whatsoever.
Just when I thought he was done ranting for the day, his star wars ring tone went off and he picked it up in class to talk to his drill Sargent. Once he hung up the phone with him he proceed to play UN edited Still D.R.E by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. And if that wasn't enough he then played a south park quote by cartman that said Fuck at least five times. After that was played he got up and left for the day.

Now I don't know what to think of this dude. Most of the time he annoys the hell out of me. But there are those times he is amusing. I must agree with "hippie child" that he is to unstable to be carrying a gun at all. I would like to think that this 19 year old man just wants some sort of attention. But I am leaning towards believing that he is a few fries short of a happy meal.

p.s I give my teacher props for not ever getting mad at this dude. Its rather impressive. Ive been tempted to tell him to shut the fuck up many times, and he just interrupts constantly, so props to her.


Tell me what you think about this. I am still undecided.

Favorite white trash delight!

I was probably about 9 years old when this story takes place. The events took place somewhere in the woods of middle Maine. I was visiting two friends of mine at their house. The afternoon started off like any normal Maine afternoon, a nice 4 wheel ride through the mud and grass and everything else. This went on until my buddy did a barrel roll off of the thing and got bruised up. This made us turn to our next event of the day......................... Smashing old cars with metal poles and other miscellaneous objects. Now when I say cars they were literally at least 30 different cars throughout these woods. And our job as kids was to smash all the glass we could find and dent in as mannnnnnny doors as possible. This went on for at least an hour and a half. Never can a child feel as much joy as when he smashes two headlights at once and watches and glass shatters throughout the woods. Once we were done with this it was time for dinner. I believe we had grilled cheese and blue drink served in old mayonnaise jars. The reason I cant remember what I ate was because of the next event that took place. My friends older brother who was probably 14 at the time took three shop N Save brand hot dogs and put them in a bowl and melted two pieces of American cheese on top. This was his dinner, or so he thought it was. The second his parents caught whiff of this meaty delight he was yelled at like he had just stole the meal. They said "That there meal is to expensive for you just to eat". And carried on about how selfish he was for eating those 3 hot dogs and 2 pieces of cheese. They made him offer some of his treat to me and his brother. I kindly declined and stuck with my blue drink and grilled cheese. I guess the thing that always has got me is as much as I like hot dogs and cheese is the fact that 3 of those hot dogs and cheese probably cost about maximum 2 dollars total. I guess they were looking for him to eat along the lines of a 30 cent meal instead. O well to each his own I suppose.

I will always remember this fine and random day of my youth.

Its Monday

So it is the beginning of Thanksgiving week. I found a video that we have all been thankful for many years now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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Latest Poll

Sorry It took a bit to make this official, but shits gotten a bit crazy lately. So there seemed to be a pretty overwhelming vote (50%) that MMF's (three ways with two dudes) were Super GEEE, suprisingly the runners up both at 22% were Totally legit, and as long as swords dont cross. so essentially 44% seemed to think in some way or another it was cool to be helping your bro show a nice young lady what a chinese finger trap really is. and apperently nobody got the whole "get em Tone" thing which really dissappointed me.

Bar Fight !

So tonight a few buddies and I decided to roll down to the senior social. The theme of this event was a pirate luau. There were some amusing 40 year old dudes there breaking it down with equivalent aged women that made me chuckle at first. But then out of no where an unprecedented event took place. I turned around and the bartender is hoping over the bar attacking literally the smallest dude in the place. He sprints and him and grabs/swings at him. Then is when people start to react and step in. The good news is they let the little guy get at least two solid face shots in on the bartender before pulling them both apart. The thing is the bartender I believe was the only dude that worked there in the room so he had no one to back him up or kick the kid out from what I could tell. Apparently what happened is The bartender cut the young man off so the young man said a few choice words to him and hit all the beer taps so they were spilling beer all over the place. This is what caused him to hop the bar. You may be thinking that this is a waste of beer. But no my fine people several folks came up to me stoked that they were able to fill there beers for free while the fight was going on.
I believe this bartender can fit in the category of townie which I spoke of in my previous post.

How many of you have seen a bartender hop the bar and try to beat the shit out of someone? Well I have now and it is truly amusing!

Hell for a small town in the middle of Maine there sure are a lot of amusing things that go down! What will happen next?

Senior citizen discounts

Recently I have started to notice that old people get benefits in life that us younger folk do not. For instance my dad and I went to Wendy's the other day and because he was over 60 he got 10% off his meal. I am 23 years old I want 10 % off my meal. Does Wendy's think that old people are going to eat that much less that they deserve a discount. Or is it that they thoroughly enjoy the presence of old people so much that they give them a discount.
Another instance is the early bird special. Often happens around 5-6 am. Old people can cruise on through since they have already been up for an hour or two and get a 2 dollar breakfast. Now I realize this is not the busiest time of day so the companies might want to get these oldies in their seats. But damn if i get up at 5 am and want fucking breakfast at I Hop or Denny's or something they best be giving me that deal as well. I mean hell I earned that discount. I was probably up till 3am and only got 2 hours of sleep and just felt like wandering to get some food. As where an old person went to bed at 6:45pm and got 10 hours of sleep. They did not earn this discount at all. They got a great nights sleep. They had time to get up. Shower, put there teeth in, fix their toupee and they still get a discount? What kind of society is this.


Wow I just learned of a senior discount that takes the cake............................ An EZ pass turnpike discount for seniors. This is the most outlandish thing I have ever heard. First of all this discount starts at age 65. This is an age where old people need to start cutting down on driving for the rest of our safety. Not only is this unfair, it just encourages our roads to be less safe to drive on. I do not want to drive down the turnpike and have 4 lanes full of old people who said hell were going to travel more now because we got our EZ pass discount. I can just imagine people going 60 miles an hour and then not looking slowing to 50 to change lanes and cutting people off left and right. This sounds like a hell on earth, and I for one can not be a part of this.


Someone soon needs to take a stand against these discounts for the old folk of our nation. Do yourself a favor a google simply " senior citizen discounts" and look at some of this shit. Some of the sites have a mind boggling amount of deals for the "old".
I am young and don't have money, and the amount of discounts I receive as a student does not compare at all to that as an old person.

It probably hurts companies to give these discounts to seniors only. I do not want to be in a place or restaurant that is overtaken by old people. Don't get me wrong this articile is not about bashing the old people themselves, its about the fact that old people are profiting from being old, while us younger folk are spending more money so old people can get discounts. Its just not right!

Townies

Townies...................... The folks that heckle you as you walk around any sort of town. The people that sit under light posts after midnight and yell things at you hoping that you will want to fight them. The guys that all day every day drive there shitty cars or trucks around and peel out all over town. The guys that will go to parties and creep in the corner or outside, or maybe just try to start shit if there is enough of them just for a little entertainment.

Well is there a place for this forever? How long can you just be a townie for?
After thinking about this for a while now I have come to the conclusion that Townies will live on forever. Sometimes they will even just keep growing in numbers because the elders of the group do not move on from the current town.

The way I look at it is most of the time Townies seem to be some sort of friends with the local law enforcement. Therefore most of the shit that they pull gets swept under the rug. This being said if you don't have a whole lot going on. Why not stick around, hoot and holler and raise hell with no repercussions?

Well there is something I like to call moving along. Maybe growing up in some ways.... Or even just changing your scene. How long can you do literally the same shit every day for? There has to be a point in a Townies life where He/She realizes or thinks..... there must be more out there. There could be other cities to explore... there could be other activities to take part in.

Some may choose to move on from there typical townie ways. Maybe they meet a girl, or actually decide to get some sort of job. But most seem to decide to stick to their guns, and just keep on doing what they always do annoy and bother everyone who is not them.

In closing I pose the question what is worse than being the dingle berry of a town?

Scary? Funny? Both

So I was surfing around the net the other day and came across pictures of a 2ft 4 lady from Kentucky. Yes we have all seen midgets before. Yes they can be funny. But can one this small have kids??!?! The answer is yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even more disturbing then the midget herself is the fact that this like 6ft 1 dude married her. Is this necessary? Like this Kentucky male would be better off dating his sister like everyone else in his state. This might be one of the oddest, creepiest, and funniest couples of all time!

p.s She has normal sized hands!!!!!!!!!

New Pet Peeve

So I just figured out that I have a new Pet Peeve. Indiana Jones hats with feathers in them being worn like its someones job. I saw this today on the campus of my college. I wanted to rush the young man and curb stomp the hat off his head! Does the dude think he is dangerous, or mysterious? Honestly does he think young women are gonna jump his bones just because he wears this hat and a leather man tool on his belt and hiking boots? Does this get the dude laid? Tell me what you think because it is angering me!

Monday.... more like funday

So maybe you had a long weekend? Maybe you had a fun weekend? Either way its Monday and that means you need a little something to jump start your week!

Trough Bunnies

Today's lesson is about trough bunnies. After reading this you will have a vivid description of what one is. I was eating brunch the other day after being up most of the night. I got my usual of home fries, eggs, and pancakes. Now to some this may sounds like a lot. But in reality it's not. As I sit down to eat I look over at another group that had just sat down. 4 girls and 3 guys all pushing 300 or so pounds. I figure they will probably be eating lettuce or maybe some eggs or something light presumably after there morning jog. But to my dismay they have exactly what I have plus a bowl of cereal, 2 choco milks each and a huge waffle each with several scoops of Gifford's ice cream on it. These Trough Bunnies were able to finish all of their food and some more before I was able to finish mine. I just cant imagine why someone that size would essentially want to keep killing themselves. I mean come on eat a fucking apple or something. But really do these people need ice cream waffles to go with their breakfast? That is not even indulging in their instance it may as well be suicide. After I witnessed this horrific display I deemed such a person a trough bunnies. An over sized human who's fat and fluffy, who looks like they are eating out of a trough. AKA TROUGH BUNNY! After this instance happend I started looking around everywhere I went in my town. Trough Bunnies are rampid! It is like Guantanamo Bay here, except Fat people who wish to stay morbidly obese have been sent here. Its ridiculus. Our cross walks are going to form frost heaves due to these people. Someone come and help these Trough Bunnies.
Stay tuned for future Trough Bunny sightings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OINK OINK!!!

EVERYBODY RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN HIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SKIP TOWN! IT IS UPON US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So there are two cases of h121 In my town now. This has caused me to get 3 e-mail warnings and hafta hear about It everywhere I go. Well knock on wood but I rarley get that type of flu anyway. I really dont give a shit about this swine flu. Or I could be like some people who claim to be hiding in their respective homes with a thing of soap taped to them to ward off the evil swine germs! I tend to think this whole h1n1 thing is a scare tatic put out there by someone in some sort of power to scare everyone. Or It was done by news stations to give them something to constantly talk about. People die every year of the flu. This so far is really no different. Its a different strand of flu, but until people start dropping off like a plague I am not a believer.



On a lighter note it is snowing outside which means soon I will not have to wonder what to do. I can go snowboarding!

What The Fuck

As many of you may know there has been a Boondock Saints sequel in production for some time, what im guessing most of you dont know is that it opende this past weekend. The reason why you probably didnt know is because it only opened in 68 theaters nation wide and was over shadowed by the Jacko doccumentery that was somehow put together in essentially 2 months. It not only brings back the original cast, minus Willam Dafoe, but it ads Peter Fonda!! Its bullshit that this isnt everywhere, all the reviews on IMDB are good so if you can go see it!!

American

Normally I do not like to get into politics much. But today I did decide to vote, and just did so. Now don't get me wrong I believe everyone has the right to vote and have their voice be heard. But on some of these topics and the way the questions are worded these people in my town will have ZERO clue what they are looking at. They might as well have just given these folk quarters to flip for there answers. That would probably be a more effective method. I am glad that voting day is here so finally I do not have to see ignorant old people trying to get me to agree with them on topics. I generally and not a huge old person fan anyway so having them bother me to join them just sucks! Lastly I was pleased to sign a sheet for my support of a casino that would be an hour away from me. I really need this to go through. It would make Maine a much better place. Thanks for reading my rambles. Enough politics!


Funniest sign I saw an old man holding up was simply " 2 men Ridiculous".!!!!

It must be Monday..........

Just figured I should start the work week of right for us all!

WOW

I don't know if you all had a good Halloween...................... but me and everyone around me sure as hell did! As I walked through the town this morning I could see the carnage left by the celebrators. Trash......Signs torn down.........kinda looks like a tornado went through.

Best part of my weekend amusing wise was around 2am Friday/Saturday. My friend we will call him "pablo" got into an argument on our friends porch. He claimed at least twenty times that he was the biggest douche bag in town. And he was damn proud of it. And due to him being the biggest douche bag he wanted this kid with a blond mustache to hit him. So they kept arguing back and forth. Pablo then started trying to philosophize to the mustached man. And the man took it as disrespect. I mean hey sounds like a douche bag to me! hahah. I have not laughed that hard in a long time.

Now heres a tip for you hungry people out there that like and enjoy quick yummy chicken. Get your ass down to Mc Donalds........... order 20 mcnuggies! They are only like 6 bucks. Get some sweet n sour sauce and bufflo sauce. Eat your nuggie in 2 bites as to take advantage of both the sauces. Lets just call this the food tip of the week.


Wow so this has been a random post. But really my mind is a blurr and all over the place.